Christians too can be caught up in networks of verbal violence through the internet and the various forums of digital communication. Even i...

Pope Francis exhorts us, with the help of Edith Stein: Let us be spurred on by the signs of holiness that the Lord shows us through the hu...

Once in a while in my wish to live a spiritual life I have wandered into a dead end or a blind alley. Usually it involves the wrong use of r...

I'm back in Rome after the week in Assisi. The 'spiritual exercises' were good, just not what I would call a retreat. It's a...

Today it was my turn to be principal celebrant at Mass. I've come to hold such days precious in my current circumstances. When I was in ...

For a few days each year around this time we get, in the Office of Readings, St. Augustine's Letter 130, to Proba, on prayer. It touches...

We are taught that the 'universal call to holiness' was one of the great gifts and insights of Vatican II, and it's quite true....

I heard yesterday with great delight that our bishops in the United States had voted in favor of a project to develop a new translation of t...

Everywhere I've been to Sunday Mass in Italy, both inside and outside of religious houses (with the exception of Santa Susanna in Rome, ...

Those are the current postulants from my province of the Order. I was impressed with their work in the video. A couple of things in partic...

As perhaps you noticed, this blog disappeared for a couple of days, along with my Twitter account. I just needed that little bit of space in...

It's interesting living close to the administrative center of the Order; you learn the answers to questions you never knew you had. Toda...

When you're living in a foreign country, it's a common question in various settings. Mostly I say I'm from New York. This isn...

I have always loved Holy Saturday. The emptiness of it just speaks to my praying heart. "There is a great silence on earth today, a gre...

One of my great teachers, John of the Cross, has been with me in a special way this Lent. From the Subida de Monte Carmelo : Cualquier gus...

There was a lot to strike--and even the pierce--the heart in the new prayers for Ash Wednesday yesterday, but I was grateful most of all for...

Yesterday I put on Twitter the old gag about the recipe for holy water: take regular water. Boil the hell out of it. It got retweeted a bunc...

As I continued to reflect on the 'examination of conscience' post from yesterday, a quote from Merton's New Seeds of Contemplati...

One of my disappointments with religious life as I have found it is that in some ways we seem to have abandoned the classic concerns of the ...

Thinking on St. Bruno for his feast day this morning, I opened up the home page of the Carthusian order . I don't know if it's some ...